Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

2007-02-27 Thread Christopher Fynn
The ellipses at least is in virtually every Latin font. Since the glyph for this character is in the "Windows ANSI" character set, the "Macintosh Roman" character set and the old "Adobe Standard Encoding" it is safe to use even with old fonts that have < 256 glyphs, provided the font is correc

Re: icons for languages

2005-09-19 Thread Christopher Fynn
Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:07 +0200, Gudmund Areskoug wrote: Got any better ideas for graphics/icon? Yes, flags are better. They are less controversial than maps I agree, while not wholly uncontroversial flags are mere symbols - while maps may imply the possessio

Re: Holidays in different countries

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher Fynn
Denis Jacquerye wrote: I really like the idea but it seems like a huge task, at least if you really want to have all of the countries and regions' holidays. Gathering all this information would require a lot of dedicated people, with proper knowledge of each country and region. It will be hard